13/07/2025
Traditional Acupuncture & The FIRE Element 🔥🔥
In the northern hemisphere, we are currently in Fire season in the wuxing (five element) cycle.
Fire energetics in traditional east Asian medicine;
Season ~ Summer
Colour ~ Red
Sound ~ Laugh
Odour ~ Scorched
Emotion ~ Joy
Organs / Meridians ~ Heart, Small Intestine & Pericardium, Triple Heater
Spirit ~ Shen
Elemental characteristics;
🔆 In nature ~ the midday sun, flowers in bloom, heat, full yang
🔆 In people ~ life and soul of the party, fun, gregarious, flirtatious, playful
☯️ Fire out of balance ~ over-excitement, hysteria, burn out, ungrounded; also... timidity, muddled thinking, shyness.
☯️ Constitutional issues that may arise ~ palpitations, high blood pressure, anxiety, temperature fluctuations.
❤️🔥 "The empty space at the centre of the Heart is the residence of the Shen, the divine seed of starlight that comes to us from heaven at the moment of our conception and that gives us the capacity to know ourselves, to 'see' our way and to shine the light of our own unique self - our own divinity - out in to the world. For alchemists throughout space and time, this spark of divinity is the 'true gold'. For the Daoists, it was considered the most precious, the most potent, yet also the most vulnerable aspect of our being."
~ extract from Kigo, Lorie Dechar (2021: 125).
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Acupuncture is an ancient system of medicine, treating illness and imbalances at a root-cause level.
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